It was an unfortunate night: the scheduled featured reader had created a scheduling conflict & could not be here. I dutifully waited to see who would show up for the open mic & eventually we had a small group for an intimate, informal sharing of our writing.
Sylvia Barnard read a piece inspired by a performance at the Deerfield, MA Library of a person posing as a one of the ancestors who had lived in the village, Sylvia thinking of her own forebears there.
David Gonsalves read the whimsical “Sonnet Composed While My Muse Was Out For Lunch.”
Austin Houston’s “Future Proofing” was a hopeful poem of he & his wife planning to have a family.
Sally Rhoades read 2 poems from her latest collection of poems Taking Time (The Troy Book Makers, 2025) “Lilacs” (inspired by one of my poems), & a poem about a foster home she was in as a child, that she said she had never read out before tonight “Burke, NY.”
I read last, my birthday poem from January, “Self-Portrait with Cat.”
I attempt to have a featured reader each month, along with an open mic for community writers, on the third Thursday at the Social Justice Center, 33 Central Ave., Albany, NY, 7:30pm — your donation supports poetry events in Albany as well as the work of the Social Justice Center.
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